The Lapp Group today received a visit from President
Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the company's 2016 Hannover
Messe trade fair booth. President Obama and Chancellor Merkel learned about the
latest technology innovations from Lapp, which is a family-owned wire and cable
manufacturer with US headquarters in Florham Park, N.J.

One of the major highlights at the booth was a
basketball-playing robot made by Lapp’s customer Comau, which incorporates Lapp’s
own ÖLFLEX®
ROBOT cables.

“The ÖLFLEX® ROBOT cables, which are laid inside
the robot arm, must withstand quick and precise movement under high torsion,
tight bending radii and severe acceleration. Over a robot’s service life, this
means that cables will be twisted 15 million times over 1400 degrees along
their own axis,” explained Chairman Andreas Lapp. “Typically, a cable cannot
possibly withstand that kind of punishment but our engineers made it possible.
This way, Comau can give a full eight years of warranty on their robots.”

Andreas
Lapp also presented the President and the Chancellor with a set of data and
power cables for robots. The escalation of the Internet of Things means that
robots and other machines increasingly need to be networked. The resulting rising
data volumes and challenging mechanical requirements are extremely challenging
for the cables.

Lapp’s
ETHERLINE® TORSION Cat.6A for example can transmit up to 10 Gigabits
of data per second even under permanent twisting. “Only Lapp can deliver such
complete solutions, in this we are a world market leader,” declared Andreas
Lapp proudly.

Andreas Lapp accompanied his guests as they strolled
through the cable specialist company’s “Walk of Fame”. The ‘walk’ featured
actors dressed up as film stars Marilyn Monroe and Charlie Chaplin, in honour
of this year’s partner country, the USA – and also revealed the latest
highlights from the Lapp portfolio. “I am impressed at how a family-owned business like
Lapp has found international success,” said Chancellor Markel.

President Obama added: “Lapp serves as an excellent
role model for US businesses.” In conversation with President Obama, Andreas Lapp
highlighted the US market’s significance for the Lapp Group: “In the USA we’ve
recently experienced particularly good growth of more than 20%.”

The USA’s importance to the Lapp Group was also
underlined by the fact that one of its key areas of focus at the trade fair is
Lapp’s UL-certified products, which are accredited especially for use in North
America.